{
    "term": "facilitate",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "facilitate",
            "heSheIt": "facilitates"
        },
        "pastSimple": "facilitated",
        "pastParticiple": "facilitated",
        "ingForm": "facilitating"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to make an action or a process possible or easier",
            "sensetop": "facilitate something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The new trade agreement should facilitate more rapid economic growth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Structured teaching facilitates learning."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The use of computers has greatly facilitated the firm's ability to keep accurate records."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Banking secrecy laws need to be lifted in order to facilitate investigation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The smaller meetings will facilitate participation by all staff."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["greatly", "further"],
                "verb + facilitate": ["be designed to", "help (to)"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fəˈsɪlɪteɪt/",
                "audio": "fa/facilitate/facilitate__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fəˈsɪlɪteɪts/",
                "audio": "fa/facilitate/facilitates__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fəˈsɪlɪteɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "fa/facilitate/facilitated__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fəˈsɪlɪteɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "fa/facilitate/facilitating__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fəˈsɪlɪteɪt/",
                "audio": "fa/facilitate/facilitate__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fəˈsɪlɪteɪts/",
                "audio": "fa/facilitate/facilitates__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fəˈsɪlɪteɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "fa/facilitate/facilitated__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fəˈsɪlɪteɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "fa/facilitate/facilitating__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 17th cent.: from French faciliter, from Italian facilitare, from facile ‘easy’, from Latin facilis ‘easy’, from facere ‘do, make’."
}